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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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